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Entry #1
March 6, 2015

In my Research paper class I learn in full detail how to use Wikipedia, I learn the purpose of it and not all the sources is unreliable, I set up the account, learn what the User page, Talk Read mode Edit and View history, I also lear how to insert signatures and how to set up the sandboxes

Entry #4
March 27, 2015

Today in class, we got into groups, I work together with my team mates Elizabeth and Biron with Octavias Butler influence. We had many resources avaluable to us.

My Impression of Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler who was born in Pasadena, California on June 22, 1947 and been the oldest child had a very ruff childhood. Daughter of Octavia Margaret Guy and Laurice James Butler. After losing her father at a very young age (seven years old), she was in the care of her mother and maternal grandfather who was a Baptist and a very strict man, she was not allowed to have fun or do any things that other kids of her age were doing like dancing, makeup and movies. Octavia was almost six feet tall which caused her to be extremely shy, with the combination of her height and the restrictions her grandfather had, she segregated herself and often believe that she was ugly.

Octavia journey on becoming a successful writer started at a very young age. Mrs. Butler help her daughter learn by reading to her until she was six years old and motivating her to write. At age ten, Octavia was already working on a story and by age twelve she was anxiously writing complete stories which surprised her mother. After graduating from Pasadena’s City College in 1968 with a History degree, she transfer to California State University, Los Angeles, Octavia’s literature journey will have a decline which caused her from time to time to leave what she love the most, writing.

“Feeling miserable and worry” because her two previous short stories were not successful enough. When Octavia was twenty-three years old when she sold her first two short stories to Clarion. “Crossover” was published in the in 1971 and the other was purchased by Harlan Ellison which was never published. It took five years of rejection for Octavia to sell her next work.

After realizing her love for literature, she decided to focus more in her literature work and less in actual love, “So, I got married to the writing”.

Octavia Butler Biography

Positive Obsession

Fledging review
Inside Charles L. Crow review of Octavia Butler best-selling novel Fledging, explaining how different her non-fiction novels like the vampires were from the tradition tales. Crow also explains the points or the main ideas Butler gave on her novels like feminism, and racial difference. Crow also explains how Shori the vampire-heroine of the novel killed for her survival and the amnesia she faced and how she survived the tragic attack her town encounter. Charles Crow points these themes inside his review of Fledging; Feminism, difference as a means to survival, and the mutualistic symbiosis. To best support Crow points this quotes out; “I was hungry – starving! – and I was in pain. There was nothing in my world but hunger and pain, no other people, no other time, no other feelings,” “Her stories of border crossings always resonate with implications about race, gender, and family in our own society,” and “She cannot help it; an injured vampire needs meat to survive and recover. Shori, the vampire-heroine of the novel, has been shot, beaten, and burned, and is temporarily blind, and kills the man out of raw instinct. She also suffers from amnesia, and has no memory of the attack that destroyed her community and family, or how she escaped it.”

Citation Practice
--NeverFall MVR (talk) 20:28, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Birth of the Writer